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An Amazonian snake has two types of venom that kill different prey
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Boy’s brain works just fine after a large piece was removed
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Life
When you ride the subway you share bacteria with everyone in your city
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Lemurs self-medicate by rubbing toxic millipedes over their bottoms
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Bio-engineered lungs are the first successful organs made in the lab
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AI camera to help spot the best grapes for making pesticide-free wine
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Newly-discovered type of lung cell has central role in cystic fibrosis
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Google Glass app uses emojis to help children with autism read faces
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Earth
Did ancient Mayan civilisation collapse because of a sudden drought?
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Modified mosquitoes wipe out whole city’s dengue for the first time
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Humans
Mystery of Welsh bodies buried at Stonehenge as first stones arrived
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Space
Dark matter might be harder to detect because it’s not from our galaxy
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Football teams secretly using AI to predict injuries before they occur
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Environment
Small dogs urinate higher up lamp posts to make themselves seem bigger
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Environment
Two huge Antarctic glaciers are losing much more ice than we thought
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Humans
It may be impossible to evolve a large brain if you hibernate
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Deaths caused by the opioid fentanyl are rising in the UK
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Earth
Global warming may become unstoppable even if we stick to Paris target
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Space
Explosive facelift left star looking much younger than its true age
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Radio jammers saved Venezuela's president from deadly drone attack
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Environment
More than 90 people killed in massive earthquake on island of Lombok
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Physics
Sound waves are a form of antigravity because they have negative mass
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The underwater drones that hunt for oil spills beneath the waves
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Pulses of laser light could find murder victims in unmarked graves
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Allergy explosion: They are on the rise, and here’s why
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Allergy explosion: What causes allergies and how to avoid them
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Allergy explosion: The truth behind the most common myths
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Environment
Extreme tales from a record-breaking dive in the Antarctic
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Uncrackable computer chips stop malicious bugs attacking your computer
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